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Old 11-08-2017, 06:08 PM
 
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Seattle is still a bargain compared to the Northeast... (NYC, Boston etc).
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Old 11-08-2017, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Pacific NW
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Seattle is still a bargain compared to the Northeast... (NYC, Boston etc).
Boston is WAY cheaper than Seattle.

https://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
https://www.zillow.com/boston-ma/home-values/
Boston: $561k
Seattle: $695k

NY metro is far cheaper than Seattle metro.
https://www.zillow.com/new-york-metr...3/home-values/
NY Metro: $426k
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Old 11-09-2017, 10:58 AM
 
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Boston is WAY cheaper than Seattle.

https://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
https://www.zillow.com/boston-ma/home-values/
Boston: $561k
Seattle: $695k

NY metro is far cheaper than Seattle metro.
https://www.zillow.com/new-york-metr...3/home-values/
NY Metro: $426k

I was looking at the overall living calculator, and Boston is like 5% more expensive than Seattle overall. But after NYC and SF, DC is 3rd, and then Boston/LA/Seattle are all lumped in closely.
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Old 11-09-2017, 11:19 AM
 
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Boston is WAY cheaper than Seattle.

https://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
https://www.zillow.com/boston-ma/home-values/
Boston: $561k
Seattle: $695k

NY metro is far cheaper than Seattle metro.
https://www.zillow.com/new-york-metr...3/home-values/
NY Metro: $426k
If you actually think NY metro is far cheaper than Seattle, I'll have what you're smoking... I've lived in both Brooklyn/Greenwich CT and Seattle... you have no clue.

Funny there seems to be a Seattle inferiority complex here though, where people are obsessed with proving it's more expensive.

It's not..

Seattle is dirt cheap in comparison.
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Old 11-09-2017, 11:31 AM
 
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If you actually think NY metro is far cheaper than Seattle, I'll have what you're smoking... I've lived in both Brooklyn/Greenwich CT and Seattle... you have no clue.

Funny there seems to be a Seattle inferiority complex here though, where people are obsessed with proving it's more expensive.

It's not..

Seattle is dirt cheap in comparison.
It's certainly not more expensive than New York or San Francisco, but it's certainly more expensive than just about every other city listed here. The thing with these "how expensive is your city" articles that come out periodically each year is they've all got a different metric for what constitutes expensive, and they all typically rely upon data that's antiquated in some way. For example, most of the recent ones have Seattle's home and/or rental prices way under what reality actually is. I've seen some that actually try to tie in the cost of alcohol.

But no matter the metric, there is no sane one that claims Seattle is "dirt cheap" in comparison to anything. Sorry, but when you eclipse the cost of living in Southern California, you've gone too far.
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Old 11-09-2017, 11:37 AM
 
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Boston is WAY cheaper than Seattle.

https://www.zillow.com/seattle-wa/home-values/
https://www.zillow.com/boston-ma/home-values/
Boston: $561k
Seattle: $695k

NY metro is far cheaper than Seattle metro.
https://www.zillow.com/new-york-metr...3/home-values/
NY Metro: $426k
That’s not the proper way to determine cost of living - you have to look at price per square foot.

NYC metro- $272
Boston Metro- $267
Stamford CT Metro- $261 (part of NYC metro, large enough to be split off)
Seattle- $248
Washington DC- $223

Seattle isn’t cheap, by any means. But the cost of living of any halfway decent neighborhood in NY/NJ/CT is on another level. And you can go not far outside Seattle and find cheap housing - can’t do that in the northeast. Just as prices start to lower a bit, you start to enter another metro, so they rise again.

Try purchasing something decent for $426k commutable to the city in the tri-State area. Good luck.
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Old 11-09-2017, 11:45 AM
 
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It's certainly not more expensive than New York or San Francisco, but it's certainly more expensive than just about every other city listed here. The thing with these "how expensive is your city" articles that come out periodically each year is they've all got a different metric for what constitutes expensive, and they all typically rely upon data that's antiquated in some way. For example, most of the recent ones have Seattle's home and/or rental prices way under what reality actually is. I've seen some that actually try to tie in the cost of alcohol.

But no matter the metric, there is no sane one that claims Seattle is "dirt cheap" in comparison to anything. Sorry, but when you eclipse the cost of living in Southern California, you've gone too far.
Even LA metro is far cheaper than NYC metro. In comparison to NY/SF, yes it is dirt cheap. Even in NYC's biggest suburbs, its hard to find a small house under a million (Englewood/Alpine NJ, Greenwich/Old Greenwich/Darien/New Canaan CT, Scarsdale/Bronxville/Oyster Bay NY).

As above poster said, go 40 miles outside seattle, you can get new construction for 400k. Go 40 miles outside NYC, tiny old houses are still $800k.
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Old 11-09-2017, 11:48 AM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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That’s not the proper way to determine cost of living - you have to look at price per square foot.

NYC metro- $272
Boston Metro- $267
Stamford CT Metro- $261 (part of NYC metro, large enough to be split off)
Seattle- $248
Washington DC- $223

Seattle isn’t cheap, by any means. But the cost of living of any halfway decent neighborhood in NY/NJ/CT is on another level. And you can go not far outside Seattle and find cheap housing - can’t do that in the northeast. Just as prices start to lower a bit, you start to enter another metro, so they rise again.

Try purchasing something decent for $426k commutable to the city in the tri-State area. Good luck.


You can add Chicago to this list with a median price per square foot of $230.
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Old 11-09-2017, 05:50 PM
 
Location: West Coast
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Sorry, but when you eclipse the cost of living in Southern California, you've gone too far.
Especially when you consider how podunk and crappy it is in comparison to SoCal in terms of weather, restaurants, things to do that don’t cause hypothermia 10 months out of the year, entertainment options, etc...
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Old 11-10-2017, 06:31 AM
 
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Especially when you consider how podunk and crappy it is in comparison to SoCal in terms of weather, restaurants, things to do that don’t cause hypothermia 10 months out of the year, entertainment options, etc...
Not sure if you’re referring to SF, Seattle or NYC here, but there’s nowhere (aside from mountainous regions) in the continental US that has freezing weather even half the year, nevermind 10 months.
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